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" I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it. "
Julie Plec
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" Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own. "
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Trust
Strong
Confidence
" I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense. "
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Hurt
Better
Haters
" A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience. "
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Behind
Audience
Relationship
" I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance. "
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Week
High
Young
" Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it. "
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Loss
Vampires
Show
" TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show. "
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Life
Hard Work
Sacrifice
" Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty. "
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Community
Cruelty
Friends
" In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other. "
Julie Plec
Universe
Human
Humanity
" I look at 'Friday Night Lights' as one of my all-time favorite series finales, and that is what you want. After all the roads you've traveled with these people, you just want to know that they're going to be happy. I'm a big believer in shows that make that choice. "
Julie Plec
Be Happy
People
Night
" I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine. "
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Work
Magazine
Hollywood
" It was a high-class problem burden, but it was still a burden on 'The Vampire Diaries,' in which we had this group of characters that we loved writing for so much and who had so much available story to tell. "
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Writing
Group
Story
" Happiness is not necessarily a drama magnet. "
Julie Plec
Happiness
Drama
Necessarily
" Speaking only for myself, the ideal finale to me is 'Friday Night Lights,' where you have loved and worshipped a show for all these years, you get to come back, celebrate the characters, finish up their journeys, and send everyone out with a feeling of, 'My God, I'm so grateful that I got to know these people.' "
Julie Plec
Grateful
People
Night
" I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that. "
Julie Plec
Opinions
Where
Always
" There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat. "
Julie Plec
Hat
Best
You
" I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for decades. "
Julie Plec
Career
Television
Me
" When you're dealing with long-distance relationships, it's a relationship played out over technology. When you're in high school, it's because you're not supposed to act on those impulses yet. So some of my favorite relationships in drama are based in people that can't really be together. "
Julie Plec
School
Relationship
Technology
" The funny thing about the entertainment business is that we all feel like kids playing in a candy store, but we are entrusted with millions and millions and millions of dollars and an entire industry that can thrive or die on whether or not we do our jobs well or not. "
Julie Plec
Like
Business
Die
" I've always loved the genre of virus movies or Armageddon movies - anything that involves being trapped with the cute boy in detention when the zombies are attacking. "
Julie Plec
Loved
Cute
Boy
" To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable. "
Julie Plec
Interest
Work
Me
" Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher. "
Julie Plec
Want
You
Got
" 'Ghost World' was such an incredibly difficult episode to find the right tone for. I remember at the time it was very divisive because some people hated it - they thought it was cheesy and hokey - and I loved it. When I saw it, I cried my head off, and I was so happy. "
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People
Thought
Time
" If you write a good line, you write a good line, and the best line wins in television. It doesn't matter if you're the guy who gets the coffee or if you're the showrunner - best line wins. That's the beauty of television collaboration. "
Julie Plec
Coffee
Beauty
Best
" I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once. "
Julie Plec
Knowledge
Deep
Science
" I think Joss Whedon is a genius. "
Julie Plec
Think
Genius
I Think
" I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.' "
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I Feel
Feel
Vampire
" I'm a night owl; I could work until 6 in the morning without even thinking about it. "
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Night
Thinking
Work
" I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas. "
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Growing
Great
Up
" I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season. "
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Until
First
Get
" As a fan, I hated most of 'The Day After Tomorrow' movie except for the part where Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal were stuck in the library, and I thought, 'Oh, I like this now.' There's something about bringing people together in odd circumstances and exploring the petri dish of what happens. "
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People
Tomorrow
Day